A Handful of Dust

Laced with cynicism and truth, "A Handful of Dust" satirises a certain stratum of English life where all the characters have wealth, but lack practically every other credential.

Murderously urbane, it depicts the breakup of a marriage in the London gentry, where the errant wife suffers from terminal boredom, and becomes enamoured of a social parasite and professional luncheon-goer.